The Wilmingtonian., 1887-10-01
What on Earth Does it Mean.

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1t is not necessary to state that the Phila
depeia Press is as extreme an opponent an,
as bitter war against the land doctrines
f of Henry George as any of the promneu
journals of the country. This is VIGOROUSLY
so-or at least has been until the following
the in last Sundays issue, appeared.
We should like to know what vagary
means Is the Press becoming converted !
Otherwise how does it explain such mark cd
tergiversation.
Under the caption, "The end of British
Rule" we read
"rhe land question in both Ireland and
England is fast approaching its ultimate set
tlement in the summary confiscation, with
out compensation, of every penny of interest
owned by the landlord. The present tenant
in both countries will be left in exclusive
occupation of the land, subject, it may be, to
an increased tax, but paying no rent to any
| landlord.
This sweeping change is already half over
in Ireland. 1t is not far distant iu England
and Scotland
Over whole districts in Ireland the Irish
National League has practically supplanted
the Government. It's orders are obeyed
where English law is disregarded, and un.
del its protection wholesale refusal to pay
any but q reduced rent or no rent at all is
fast bringing the day when rent will cease
No American read the report we publish
without feeling that this is at least more than
resistance to rent; it is revolution in land
tenure
The landlod's day is gone. The Land
act reduced tue value of his land 10y $780, |
GOO, 900 at low estimate. The agitation
now in progress viii wipe out the remaining |
value. Out e 800, 900 tenants in Ireland |
100000 pay less than $50 a year, and these
We are certain to see before long legally re-
lieved oi a ront they have practically stop
ped paying. The 500 landlords who hold
half Ireland have already lost full half their
income by Mingled agitation and legislation
Ii is a mere question Of time aud no long
time, before they lose it all.
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Human nature is tho same on both sides
the Irish Sea. Men will take what they can
get. The passive resistance to rack-rents
we chronicle in our Irish correspondence
will before long begin to reduce the rents of
English landlords nnloss ,tAss a.c reduced
BY law, the soil to him who tills is sure as
ate in both lands"
What does the Philadelphia Press mean by
such doctrine?
The above are Henry Georges ideas, pure
md simple.
We presume we are right in supposing
hat the above are the ideas and theories
which the Press endorses Surely it would
lot preach one doctrine for renters in the
British Islands aud another for the hundreds
II thousands of renters in the United States.
Landlords rights are smilar both count
les SO far as the principle of leasing and
fair rent are concerned
The Press cOvertly hurrahs at the idea of {
he annihilation of rent payng-"the soil to ]
i'm who tlls sure as fate in both lands"
Then no laudorower in Punnsy lvania has /,
right, according to tne P,ees. to one cent a
f rent, from Land he has leased to a ral mer.
II the Press replies that the assertion was $
made by it simply that lanl revolution
ias transpiing in the British Irelands, we
ave to say that what it said additionally =
of sufficiently ambiguous coorng to leave .
IS readers the choice of coming Gyocge's p
octrincs "r else most superclious piece =,
{ claptlap set to catch Irish sympathy.